Definitions for ROVE
roʊvrove

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabondverb

   move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

   "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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1. rove

   Rove generally means to travel or wander aimlessly or randomly without any specific destination or purpose. It can also refer to roaming or fluctuating over a certain area or topic.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rove

   of Reeve

2. Roveverb

   to draw through an eye or aperture

3. Roveverb

   to draw out into flakes; to card, as wool

4. Roveverb

   to twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning

5. Rovenoun

   a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building

6. Rovenoun

   a roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving

7. Roveverb

   to practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy

8. Roveverb

   hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise

9. Roveverb

   to shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)

10. Roveverb

    to wander over or through

11. Roveverb

    to plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together

12. Rovenoun

    the act of wandering; a ramble

13. Etymology: [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rove

   rōv, v.t. to wander over: to plough into ridges.—v.i. to wander about: to ramble: to range: to aim, as in archery, at some casual mark: to be light-headed: to be full of fun.—n. a wandering.—ns. Rō′ver, one who roves: a robber or pirate: a wanderer: an inconstant person: in archery, a person shooting with a long bow and arrow: an arrow used by a rover: an irregular point to be aimed at: in croquet, a ball that has gone through all the hoops; Rō′very; Rō′ving, the act of wandering.—adv. Rō′vingly.—n. Rō′vingness.—Shoot at rovers, to shoot at random. [M. E. rover, a robber—Dut. roover, a pirate, rooven, to rob—roof. The verb rove is from the noun roof, plunder.]

2. Rove

   rōv, v.t. to draw through an eye: to bring wool into the form it receives before being spun into thread: to ravel out thread: to undo what has been knit: to card.—n. a roll of wool or cotton drawn out and twisted.—ns. Rō′ving, the process of giving the first twist to yarn: a slightly twisted sliver of carded fibre; Rō′ving-frame, a machine for the manufacture of cotton and worsted; Rō′ving-machine′, a machine for winding on bobbins; Rō′ving-plate, a scraper used for giving a grindstone a true circular form; Rō′ving-reel, a device for measuring a hank of yarn. [Prob. a variant of reeve or of rive.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rove

   A rope when passed through a block or sheave-hole.

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1. ROVE

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Anagrams for ROVE »

1. over

How to pronounce ROVE?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ROVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ROVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ROVE in a Sentence

1. The National Archives:

   Included is correspondence from individuals, organizations, and children to President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Andrew Card, and Karl Rove; routine memoranda regarding government awards and promotions; and draft correspondence from the White House with background material.

2. Carol Diana Adamic:

   The role of that person is to rove and check on the safety of the area they have been placed in charge of.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ROVE
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ROVE
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ROVE
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ROVE
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=ROVE